“Any press may be good press, but good press is even better,” writes Mashable’s Josh Catone. Get on a journalist’s good side and you can get just that. Catone provides five great ways for business owners to score press coverage from journalists through sites that connect reporters with sources. Perhaps the most important: be fast.

If you’re into social media, you’ve probably heard about Google’s new social network Google+. Less than a month after its launch, it already boasts more than 10 million members. OPEN Forum author Guy Kawasaki set out to conduct a little experiment to determine how engaged the Google+ community is compared to other social networks. Here are his results.

Earlier this month, two websites that OPEN Forum writer Tom Harnish operates were hacked in an attempt to steal credit card information. The hacking attempt failed, but Harnish still learned his lesson. Here, he offers eight tips to keep your data secure.

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